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laser chip and pin. Revolutionary? Hardly!

May 2, 2005 by Michele Neylon 2 Comments

Chip and PIN is a revolutionary new payment system that introduces a more secure way for over 1.1 million Laser cardholders in Ireland.
Why are we so far behind other countries?
France had a “chip and pin” system at least 13 years ago, possibly longer, and yet both laser and the CC processors are hailing the introduction of the system as “revolutionary”.
I wouldn’t care what they called the damned thing if I could actually use it where I wanted to. Shops don’t seem to have any problem with it, but just try buying something online!
So far this week I’ve had one government department’s site reject my laser saying the number was invalid, while the WorldPay gateway for CDwow rejected it without any reason.
I am not impressed!

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Michele is founder and CEO of Irish hosting provider and domain name registrar Blacknight. Read More…

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  1. Niall says

    May 2, 2005 at 11:59 pm

    I mailed cdwow about this before. Apparently you have to enter 3 or 4 zeroes for the security code.

  2. blacknight says

    May 3, 2005 at 12:49 am

    I get “Sorry – you cannot use that card type. Please try another payment method or contact the merchant for advice.” regardless of what I use as a security code 🙁

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